Handelsbanken Continues to Grow in the UK

Handelsbanken continues to grow in the UK, branch by branch. To support
the branches in Yorkshire and the north-east of the UK, another regional
bank is being established, with its head office in Leeds.

Each branch in Handelsbanken’s home markets is linked to a regional
bank. The regional bank has the joint administrative resources, regional
expertise and specialists to support the branch’s business.

A fifth regional bank is now being formed in the UK. It is expected to
be fully operational from 1 January 2015.

The head of the new regional bank will be Simon Lodge, who is currently
Head of Regional Bank Southern Great Britain (see a separate press
release).

This information is of the type which Handelsbanken is obliged to make
public according to the Swedish Securities Market Act. The information
was submitted for publication on 17 July 2014 at 06.35 a.m. CET.